Mathematical control theory provides the theoretical foundations that undergird many modern technologies, including aeronautics, biotechnology, communications networks, manufacturing, and models of climate change. During the past fifteen years, there have been numerous exciting developments at the interface of control engineering and mathematical control theory. Many of these advances were base...

We consider the Lyapunov equation for the linear dynamics, which arises naturally when one seeks for a Lyapunov function with a uniform, exact decrease. In this setting, a solution to the Lyapunov equation has been characterized only for quadratic Lyapunov functions. We demonstrate that the Lyapunov equation is a well-posed equation for strictly stable dynamics and a much more general class of ...

It is shown that the multifractal property is shared by both Lyapunov exponents and dual Lyapunov exponents related to scaling functions of one-dimensional expanding folding maps. This reveals in a quantitative way the complexity of the dynamics determined by such maps. (c) 1999 American Institute of Physics.

The goal of this paper is to provide a Lyapunov statement and proof of the recent nonlinear small-gain theorem for interconnected input/state-stable (ISS) systems. An ISS-Lyapunov function for the overall system is obtained from the corresponding Lyapunov functions for both the subsystems. Copyright @ 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd.

Given a weakly uniformly globally asymptotically stable closed (not necessarily compact) set A for a differential inclusion that is defined on Rn, is locally Lipschitz on Rn\A, and satisfies other basic conditions, we construct a weak Lyapunov function that is locally Lipschitz on Rn. Using this result, we show that uniform global asymptotic controllability to a closed (not necessarily compact)...

In this paper, the stability of switched linear systems is investigated using piecewise linear Lyapunov functions. Given a switched linear system, we present a systematic methodology for computing switching laws that guarantee stability based on the matrices of the system. We assume that each individual subsystem is stable and admits a piecewise linear Lyapunov function. Based on these Lyapunov...

We explicitly construct global strict Lyapunov functions for rapidly time-varying nonlinear control systems. The Lyapunov functions we construct are expressed in terms of oftentimes more readily available Lyapunov functions for the limiting dynamics which we assume are uniformly globally asymptotically stable. This leads to new sufficient conditions for uniform global exponential, uniform globa...

The relation between relaxation, the time scale of Lyapunov instabilities, and the Kolmogorov-Sinai time in a one-dimensional gravitating sheet system is studied. Both the maximum Lyapunov exponent and the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy decrease as proportional to N−1/5. The time scales determined by these quantities evidently differ from any type of relaxation time found in the previous investigatio...

We present a framework to transform the problem of finding a Lyapunov function of a Chemical Reaction Network (CRN) in concentration coordinates with arbitrary monotone kinetics into finding a common Lyapunov function for a linear parameter varying system in reaction coordinates. Alternative formulations of the proposed Lyapunov function is presented also. This is applied to reinterpret previou...

In this paper, we investigate the structure of several convex cones that arise in the study of Lyapunov functions. In particular, we consider cones associated with quadratic Lyapunov functions for both linear and non-linear systems, as well as cones that arise in connection with diagonal and linear copositive Lyapunov functions for positive linear systems. In each of these cases, we present som...